PLEASE SEE IT LARGE ON BLACK
Dear Friends,
Life is still busy.
Tomorrow I'll be turning 27: this afternoon I have taken a longer lunch break and got out shooting.
In the next weeks I'll be dealing mainly with Infrared and T/S shots, spring has come and chlorophyll is slowly reaching its maximum; this helps a lot when shooting IR.
After a poor sunrise session last saturday (no clouds), today I had my opportunity of getting some nice moving clouds against an almost solid black sky.
I'm sorry about my abscence, but I don't think I will be spending that much time on Flickr in the next months; Last year Flickr has been really time consuming, I don't really want that to happen again.
Details
- CANON 5d Mark II, TS-E 24 @, f/5.6, 93 s, ISO 400
- Mirror Lockup, Canon Remote Shutter
- Hoya R72 (720 nm Infrared Filter)
- Tripod
The shot
Shot about 2 km from where I live
The Processing
Photoshop:
- Converted to black and white using NIK Silver Efex Pro 2 plugin;
- Added a Soft Light layers to dodge/burn selectively (most of the dodge/burn have been performed in Silver Efex Pro 2);
- Applied an Unsharp Mask to slightly improve contrast;
- Added a level layer to improve contrast;
- Cropped 2:1;
- Resized for the Web (1200px);
- Applied a Noise Ninja layer to smoothen the sky;
- Smart Sharpen + More accurate (On luminosity 'blending mode' with the sky masked off);
- Framing and Signature.
Take a look at it,
LARGE on Black :
Infrared Étude - 2011 - #1, on Black
@ You all
Comments, faves and critiques are always welcomed!
I wish you a splendid weekend, my dear Friends
